Beyond Black There is No 

Colour
By Maryam Diener

Category Literary Fiction, Iran, Women's Rights , Religion 

About Beyond Black There is No Colour

Forough Farrokhzad, poet, mother, feminist, radical, was one of the most iconic dissenting voices in modern Iranian history. Often referred to as Iran's Sylvia Plath - for her highly original, confessional writing style as much as her battle with depression and tragic death - she went against the grain by challenging widely held conventions in turbulent mid-twentieth-century Sharia led Iran, where the forces of modernity were under siege from reactionary indoctrination and religious fervour. Divorced at nineteen and shorn of the right to see her son by draconian divorce laws, she spent much of her life attempting to reconcile a deep sense of personal loss through her guiding principles of artistic integrity and equality for society's outcasts. She died in a motor accident in 1967 aged just thirty-two. In 'Beyond Black There Is No Colour', Maryam Diener brilliantly resurrects Forough's voice to retell her story and explore the conflicting needs of family, love, emotional truth, and freedom of expression in the highly religious, misogynistic, and patriarchal Sharia led Iranian society.

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